Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (Byzantium: a European Empire and Its Legacy)

Raffensperger, Christian

Lexington Books（2018/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 238 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781498568524
• DDC分類 947.000902

Full Description

Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe takes the familiar view of Eastern Europe, families, and conflicts and stands it on its head. Instead of a world rife with civil war and killing, this book presents a relatively structured environment where conflict is engaged in for the purposes of advancing one's position, and where death among the royal families is relatively rare. At the heart of this analysis is the use of situational kinship networks—relationships created by elites for the purposes of engaging in conflict with their own kin, but only for the duration of a particular conflict. A new image of medieval Eastern Europe, less consumed by civil war and mass death, will change the perception of medieval Eastern Europe in the minds of readers. This new perception is essential to not only present the past more accurately, but also to allow for medieval Eastern Europe's integration into the larger medieval world as something other than an aberrant other.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Importance of Conflict
Chapter 2: Conflict as Bargaining
Chapter 3: Everyone Goes Home Alive
Chapter 4: The Kinship Web in Theory and Practice
Chapter 5: Iaroslav Sviatopolchich's Kinship Web in Action
Chapter 6: Géza II in the Center of a European Kinship Web
Conclusion: Kinship, Religion, and "Nation": Alternate Identity Issues in Medieval Eastern